Closer to Paradise - Hardcoverby Scott Leigh (Author) An explosive, compelling, searingly authentic thriller about the Iraq War. A stunning first novel by a former SAS officer. Good Friday 2004, and a US logistics convoy sets out to carry a precious cargo on the long journey from Baghdad to Kuwait. Several hundred kilometres to the south, a covert SAS patrol is on the lookout for weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile the Mahdi Army prepares to launch its ultra violent insurgency